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Thanks for the replies. We will be renting car and driving from one town to another. Interest include historical sights, religious places and good eats. Some of these places (Ribiedo, Villaviciosa for example) are just stop-overs/drive-bys. Not looking to overnight in all locations.

As noted, you're cutting it too short at all of your destinations. And it's a long drive, regardless of the time of year. We spend nearly 15 days last November staying in Paradors, picking up the car in Leon, dropping it off in Valladolid, taking the train back to Madrid (On The Road, Paradors and the Camino).

Remember, the days are getting shorter in November, so you have less time to see things. You can also expect a few days of rain in the North.

walkerlewis - I agree that particularly that time of year you're being a tad ambitious. of the places that you list, Santiago, A Coruna, and Santander are real outliers and probably aren't achievable, and the Picos may well be foggy.

a look at the map would suggest that from Madrid you could head to Salamanca, then Valladoild, Burgos, Logrono, possibly Zaragoza, and Segovia on the way back to Madrid. it you want to see the coast [which you may or may not actually be able to see, depending on the weather] then Robert's idea looks like a good one.

BTW there may not be a huge lot to see in Leon, but the Parador is worth seeing in itself and is a very good reason for staying in Leon, if only for a night. Of course, if you don't like the idea of staying in a monastery sleeping between real linen sheets, then by all means miss it out!

Robert's idea of staying in paradors is a wonderful one. We were in Spain a few years ago traveling by car and staying in paradors, when possible. We liked them so much we plan to return to Spain next year and stay in some more. www.parador.es/en.

Still no idea of interests.
as for sleeping there are literally 1000s of places to stay. So the world is your oyster there. Depends on Money and location.
Weather variable, weather history websites will not prove what will happen. I have had dry Novembers and very wet Novembers.Expect some snow on the peaks of the Picos de Europa, it makes for some nice photos.

Of course it´s doable, but you´ll spend a lot of time on the road. Glad to see there´s an alternative itinerary on the "Madrid and Barcelona" recurrent posts...You´re missing the beautiful Basque Country (of course I´m biased as a Basque), save it for next time.

We did this sort of thing one May in a open top car. It rained a fair bit or was foggy. The bits we actually enjoyed, were finding little out of the way hotels, castles, monesteries, wine areas and stopping where we went. The Picos were a highlight as was the hailstorm that caught us on a hill side and froze most of my face despite full wet weather gear. We also stumbled across one of the last working gold mines in the area still using water wheels to drive primative hammers and Pliny's gold panning river.

The cities we visited were not over impressive and included many you have listed, what was interesting was the people and things we met along the road.

I'd simplify the trip, I'd include Rioja (much of which is Basque) and I'd find hotels as you go.

Santiago is surprizingly far to the West and despite the hype, unless you really want to visit a massive church with a flaming silver meteor for a censer, cheeses shaped like breasts in most shop windows and a large number of nuns/priests walking about (and some people do) I'd drop it.